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The Week AI Became a Power Play

Ownership, regulation, drug discovery, infrastructure. Four stories that prove AI is no longer just a technology question. By Woosub Kim · 5 min read · July 6, 2026 I spent most of my consulting career helping enterprises figure out what AI could…

The Week AI Stopped Playing Pretend

A $60 billion acquisition, a shadow-deployed model, a nudifier ban, and $293 million into agent guardrails. The industry stopped debating capability and started negotiating control. I keep a running list of weeks that felt like turning points. Most of them,…

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The Week Government Started Saying No

The U.S. government pulled Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 three days after launch, the first export-control order ever to block a commercial AI model mid-deployment. That ban, a bipartisan federal AI bill proposing a three-year freeze on state regulation, and $188 billion flowing to four frontier companies in a single quarter all point to the same conclusion: the unregulated window for AI is closing, and founders who depend on a single model or assume today's compliance landscape will hold for 12 months are building on sand.

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The Week AI Stopped Being a Lab Experiment

A near-trillion-dollar valuation, a tech giant declaring independence, Congress writing real law, and developers learning what AI tools actually cost. Last Tuesday, I watched Anthropic close a $65 billion funding round. Not million. Billion. At a $965 billion valuation. Then…